Persists
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It
persists
for months and oftentimes for years, and when that happens, it is its own disease.
Even if you never heard this history before, the memory of it
persists
in the feelings evoked by the words you speak.
And if there's anything I've learned from looking at air, it's that even though it's changing, it
persists.
The problem
persists
today, and we've seen it most recently in the foreclosure crisis.
It's not just prevailing at war, though war still
persists.
All this still
persists.
He
persists
on living the style of a Los Angeles Gansta.
It paints a disturbing picture of what polygamy really is and why it
persists.
This Quebecois film is a charmer that redeems much else of dubious merit coming out of that bit of Canada which
persists
in its French-ness.
Moreover, the transition to a pluralist system that channels, rather than suppresses, political conflict would indeed be risky, though the risk will grow the longer one-party rule (and the endemic corruption that accompanies it)
persists.
Still, there
persists
an idea that I cannot push out of my head, and that I enter into the travel journal that I am writing for The Atlantic.
But evolution has failed to keep pace with biomedical and technological advances, allowing chronic pain (pain that
persists
beyond an acute injury or condition) to become a disease in itself.
It
persists
in ruling out Hamas as an interlocutor while engaging Egypt’s Islamist democratic majority.
If it persists, it will reinforce the growing division of Europe into “haves” and “have-nots.”
Israel’s leaders, in particular, have sought to reinforce the defenses against the anti-Semitism that still
persists
in the world.
Because it
persists
after spraying, DDT works far better than many pesticides now in use, some of which are toxic to fish and other aquatic organisms.
Little comfort can be taken in the fact that a species survives if it
persists
only at a fraction of its historical abundance, or if it is restricted to a narrow part of where it once thrived.
The DSM-III’s confusion of normal intense sadness and depressive mental disorder, which
persists
to the present, emerged inadvertently from psychiatry’s response to challenges to the profession during the 1970’s.
But there is still considerable slack in the labor market, and, as long as it persists, the gains from faster growth will continue to be concentrated at the top of the income distribution, as they have been throughout the recovery.
The problem is that hunger still
persists
on a vast scale; so, our focus must now shift to ensuring universal access to adequate food.
Worse, whenever Moscow
persists
in its demands, Lukashenko abrogates agreements without a twinge of conscience.
No one recalls any expression of regret by him, which suggests that he
persists
in such folly – and would use conditionality to turn the clock back on decades of progress in development economics.
It’s hard to know, but Khan certainly
persists
in saying so.
Even if she persists, she may break her teeth on the same bones of contention that kept her predecessors from achieving security and peace.
This pattern
persists
across Central and Eastern Europe, where governments have also opted to imprison drug users.
The US cannot expect to serve as a credible intermediary if it
persists
with a blatant pro-Israeli bias.
Israel’s position is liable to become weaker the longer it
persists
on its present course.
But no country including South Korea would invest in the North if it
persists
in nuclear development.
Where polio still
persists
– in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria – vaccinators like Deepika work tirelessly to reach every child.
Despite pleas from her family to stop, she persists, heartened by the fact that for years, not a single child in her area had been crippled by polio.
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